There is nothing good about graffiti
We should have no tolerance for people who make our public spaces uglier
In praise of the lecture
Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video
Universities must face the music
It is not too late to fix education’s arts crisis
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Final notes
The end The Musical Times is symbolic of a broader malaise in classical music
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago